Freeradius performance settings or bug?

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Apr 22 18:59:05 CEST 2008


>> Are you using "wtmp" i.e. "radlast". Don't. It's slow.
>>
> Here are some more snippets related to wtmp (from what I can tell):
> 
> unix {
>    cache = no
>    cache_reload = 600
>    radwtmp = ${logdir}/radwtmp
> }
> accounting {
>    detail
>    unix
>    radutmp
> }
> 
> session {
>        radutmp
> }
> 
> 
> I'm guessing it won't harm anything to remove the radwtmp line from the 
> unix configuration. Correct? I suppose its also ok to remove unix and 
> radutmp from the accounting section?

If you're not using those, do indeed remove them. utmp/wtmp is slow to 
update, especially if the files are large.



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